Dactylic pentameter

Greek and Latin poetic verse form

The dactylic pentameter is a verse-form which, in classical Greek and Latin poetry, follows a dactylic hexameter to make up an elegiac couplet. It consists of two halves, each consisting of two dactyls, for which spondees can be substituted in the first half only, followed by a longum. Thus the line most normally looks as follows : |— ∪ ∪ | — ∪ ∪ | — || — ∪ ∪ | — ∪ ∪ | —

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